spaces and newlines before list markers (was: evolving the spec)

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall]

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 10:00 AM, John Fraser <john at attacklab.net> wrote:

>

>  Tightening up indentation rules is definitely a breaking change, and I

>  don't see any payoff for users here.  If anything, we should be making

>  indentation rules more lenient.


My only desire is to figure out a way to allow the
whitspace-before-list-marker and also avoid the more general class of
"bugs" where a list is triggered by a sentence ending with a number on
an indented newline.

The reference citation I sent out on another thread is one example but
anything of the following form will trigger this:

* This is a list item with a hanging indent ending with a number,
  4. The rest is considered a child of a new ordered list, no matter
  what I do to this paragraph (other than rephrase to get rid of the
  hanging-indented digit+dot).

Which produces

    <ul>
    <li>This is a list item with a hanging indent ending with a number,
    <ol><li>The rest is considered a child of a new ordered list, no matter
    what I do to this paragraph (other than rephrase to get rid of the
    hanging-indented digit+dot).</li></ol></li>
    </ul>

Is this something we're comfortable with?  If not, can we come up with
something that avoids this? best, Joe

-- 
Joseph Lorenzo Hall
UC Berkeley School of Information
http://josephhall.org/